On the rocking behavior of rigid objects

Meccanica

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 121-133

  Prieto, Francisco ^a   Lourenço, Paulo B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINHO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Complex; Dirac delta; Rocking Block

Indexed keywords

COMPLEXATION; DAMPING; FRICTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; OSCILLATIONS; RIGIDITY; THEOREM PROVING;

DIRAC-DELTA; EARTHQUAKE ACCELERATION; ROCKING BLOCK; ROCKING MOTION (RM);

ROCKS;

EID: 23744443109     PISSN: 00256455     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11012-005-5875-7     Document Type: Article

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